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Week 8: Intimacy, erecting sheltering walls

Thank you, Jack, for your advice and your suggestions in your post. They help to understand and to look at special points. Changes: A story: I had a young dog. In my garden lied half a ball, filled with water … Continue reading

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Week 8, TSK Ex. 25 – Intimacy

I found an interesting example, on a simple scale, of what happens (as the passage from KTS pp. 423-4 describes) when subject and distance dissolve in intimacy and the object understands itself: “As the act of knowing unfolds, the image … Continue reading

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Distance and Intimacy

I like the image in the reading (p. 93) of VOK of consciousness “erecting sheltering walls.” Experientially it raises at least two questions: 1) can we discover those walls in our own experience; 2) what are we sheltering (protecting) against. … Continue reading

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Self, Subject, Desire & Intimacy

Dear Peter, and All, Jack wrote: “The self is always busy constructing its world: assigning meanings and telling stories. But none of this works if the self is not somehow in charge of reality.” And the text very nicely says, … Continue reading

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Telling Stories…

In ‘Dynamics of Time and Space’, Exercise 11 – Telling Stories, I was looking for founding stories, (self-stories of success and failure, sorrow and joy, gain and loss, praise and blame – LOK p. 224), and stories “that makes possible … Continue reading

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Space Communication – with KTS Ex 48 –

The quote from the book by Jack Petranker, “When It Rains Does Space Get Wet?” p.63, had me inquiring for quite awhile: “Appearance makes space manifest without ever becoming anything other than space.” I didn’t have trouble with the second … Continue reading

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DTS Ex 4 – Conducting New Knowledge

Regarding keeping the mind at the focal point of arising… I’ve seen how as a subject I am often carried away with the linearity of the stream of appearances; shifting attention to the past and future, like the needle on … Continue reading

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Moments Between Moments – LOK Exercise 14

The exercise invites us to: Observe in your own experience the flow of time from one moment to the next. If the mind is calm and alert, you may notice that between two initially observed moments A and B lie … Continue reading

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No Distance and Intimacy

In my practice of The Object and Its Glow, I have found myself shifting over into an experience which reminds me of another TSK practice, Intimacy. Often, contemplating on the inseparability of the object and its glow, I have moved … Continue reading

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Past Present and Future – TSK Ex 18-19-20-21

Working with these exercises felt something like looking at my activities through a microscope (or maybe a macroscope), to see how my past and my expectations are continuously in play… Past Present and Future – TSK Ex 18-19-20-21 Most of … Continue reading

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